Roe+v.+Wade+(1973)

The Roe v. Wade case was very important to women around the country and helped to lead the way in abortions for women in later years. A women in texas was given a doctors opinion which said she should abort her child on the grounds stating alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the womens health. It argued that denying a pregnant women to abort her baby infringed on her ninth and fourteenth amendments. This case is still debated and is fought over still today.

Prior to the case abortion laws across the U.S. in most states considered abortion a crimal act and did not support it in the least bit. In some cases from the first abortion law made in conneticut in 1821 through 1900 and farther than that it deemed abortion a common law crime and denied very many women their right to abort their child no matter what the case. The abortion laws in Texas deemed it was ok to abort a child if the mother was unfit for the act of child birth and whether or not it was to hurt her health in any way deemed by a doctor.

The Roe v. Wade case was put off but the courts at first because it questioned their judicial juristriction and was voted to be viewed shortly after the courts passed laws stating abortion only to be legal on the grounds the mother would be physically harmed, leaving it up to their physician to determine whether or not she would be harmed and the extent of the harm Arguements were scheduled by the full court to be heard December 13, 1971, but before the cases were heard supreme court justices Black and Harlan retired leaving it up to justices Stewart and Blackmun to decide if the court should hear Roe v. Wade on time. The hearing proceeded as scheduled.

Following the first round of arguements from the case, all 7 of the justices felt strongly that the law be strucken down. Chief justice Burger assigned the role of Writing the courts opinion in Roe to justice Blackmun who went on to write and argue that the Texas law was very vague. In may 1972 Blackmun went on to request the case be reargued. The case was reargued on October 11, 1972. After the case was gone over again, the only justice that signed with Blackmun's opinions was Justice powell. Others were not willing to sign on with his opinions and most and already decided to dissent. The court issued its decision on January 22, 1973. With a 7 to 2 majority vote, the court ruled in favor of Roe. The Texas law was struck down deeming abortion a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution.

This court case lead way to more womens rights and also gave women a little more power over their lives. It ensured their right to privacy. This case is still fought over with arguements stating that its wrong and that it justifies taking life while other arguements stating that its right to have a baby aborted because it ensures womens 9th ammendment rights. This case is surely a landmark case for women everywhere and has effected very many women from 1973 up to today.